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The Airy disc represents the minimum spot size that is achievable and assumes a perfect optical system that is free of aberrations – which is never quite true in practice. More importantly, it also assumes that the rear aperture of the objective has been uniformly illuminated. Lasers typically have a narrower beam diameter than the objective rear aperture and do not have a uniform transverse intensity (typically possessing a Gaussian profile) and directly illuminating the objective with a laser will result in a larger spot size than predicted by Eq. 1.

The diameter of the Airy disc (defined as the distance between the first minima in the diffraction pattern) is what is generally meant by ‘spot size’ in microscopy. The diameter depends on the wavelength of the laser light and the numerical aperture (NA) of the objective lens:

Spot sizeformula

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One thing to note is Figure 3 contains somewhat of a simplification as the simulations assume that the rear aperture of all three objectives are uniformly illuminated. As discussed above, this is achieved by beam expanding and overfilling the rear aperture of the objective. However, the diameter of the rear aperture varies with objective magnification – with the rear aperture diameter decreasing as magnification increases. In multi-objective systems, the beam expansion is typically optimised for the high magnification objectives – where it matters more. Lower magnification objectives (such as the 20x 0.4 NA in Figure 3) with larger rear apertures are typically underfilled and the spot size and diffraction pattern will have more Gaussian character from the laser than shown here.

Laser beam spot sizecalculator

The Airy disc diameter is not the only definition of spot size. Two other popular definitions are the width that the diffraction pattern falls to either half intensity (FWHM) or to 1/e2 intensity which are approximately given by:

Laser beam spot sizechart

This projects goal is to create a similar system using stepper motors, which are very simple to use, and a cheap laser diode (= 650nm) to simulate the fiber laser beam. It also acts as a prototype for an engraver using this kinematic but with a high power diode laser.

The spot size that a laser can be focused down to in Raman or fluorescence microscopy is an important parameter that depends on the wavelength of the laser and the properties of the microscope’s objective lens.

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I hope you enjoyed reading this short summary of the project! I really enjoyed working out all of the little details of the machine and really suggest reading the Prototype Report linked above. It does go into detail quite a bit more than this article! The successor of this prototype, a 5W “galvo” laser engraver using this kinematic approach actually is already functional. Hopefully I’ll have found the time to write an article about it by the time you are reading this!

where n is the refractive index of the medium between the objective and the sample and α is the half angle the light cone entering/exiting the objective.

The solution is to beam expand the laser so that its beam diameter is larger than the rear aperture of the objective in order to approximate uniform illumination – which is known as overfilling. The greater the degree of overfilling the better the approximation to uniform illumination and the closer the spot size is to Eq. 1. Overfilling comes at the cost of lowering the intensity of laser light reaching the sample and there is a trade-off between spatial resolution and power transmission through the objective.

I wont go too much into detail of the code since this is the most boring part for most people, but the general structure of the software can be seen in the figure above. By the way, all of the code can be found on the GitHub-Page of the project. The basic instructions are stored as G-Code (e.g. G0 X10 Y10) in a .txt file. These commands are transmitted line by line to the Teensy by a Python via USB. The Firmware interprets the lines and rotates the mirrors accordingly. This can be done at very high speeds (due to the high clock frequency of the Teensy), resulting in a smooth movement of the laser dot.

This test is done at various speeds, from 3000 to 20000 steps/s (distance 200mm). As you can see, the higher the speed, the smoother the projection looks. However above ~ 15k steps/s mechanical vibrations and motor limits are quite noticable.

Laser spot sizedefinition

The spot size also depends on the numerical aperture (NA) of the objective lens which is a measure of how oblique an angle of light can enter or exit the lens,

From this paper I was able to rearrange some formulas to know the direct relation of XY-movement and necessary mirror rotation (See my Prototype report for more details).

Many laser scanning systems for material processing today are based on galvanometer-actuated mirror systems and utilize fiber lasers for efficient and fast engraving on metals. However, galvanometers (and fiber lasers) are expensive and complicated to drive.

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The spot size depends on the laser wavelength (Eq. 1) with shorter wavelength lasers offering smaller spot sizes and improved spatial resolution.  The spot sizes that can be achieved at three common Raman microscopy wavelengths using a high magnification air objective lens (100x 0.9 NA) are illustrated in Figure 2.

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Gaussianlaser beam spot size

The lateral spatial resolution limit of a microscope is closely related to Eq. 1 and is obtained by replacing the 1.22 pre-factor with 0.61. This corresponds to the distance between the central maxima and first minima in the diffraction pattern and is known as the Rayleigh criterion.

Diodelaser spot size

A quick note: Scanning in this context does not refer to the digitalization of a physical 3D-Object. It refers instead to the process of engraving by moving the laser spot line by line.

The general mechanics of the scanner could not be simpler: Two stepper motors with attached mirrors (I used 20mm CO2-Laser mirrors because I had them laying around), two endswitches and the 3D-printed base to hold it all together. The optics, in general, are pretty simple as well: The laser diode itself is seated in a brass housing contained in an aluminium block acting as a heatsink. The brass housing also contains a collimator lens so that the beam is parallel (=collimated). The beam exits the housing and gets deflected by the mirrors. Of course, the machine must know exactly how much the mirrors need to be turned for a specific position on the target plane (XY-coordinates are given by G-Code commands). Luckily, I was able to find a paper describing the mathematical model of this exact kinematic (Link).

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All in all, the system behaves surprisingly well considering what it is made of. I also did some quite extensive accuracy tests, see chapter 4.2 of the Prototype report, but they are generally of little concern in this application.

The first question that could be asked is what is meant by ‘spot size’? When light passes through any aperture (in this case the microscope objective lens) diffraction occurs. The diffraction pattern that results from uniformly illuminating a circular aperture is called the Airy pattern and is shown in Figure 1. It consists of a bright central circle known as the Airy disc which contains 84% of the total light intensity, with the remaining 16% distributed across a series of progressively less intense concentric rings.

A very detailled Prototype Report for this system can be found at my GitHub-Page. This report is written like a scientific paper and should give a lot more insight into the design details of the project.

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The electronics of the scanner are relatively simple as well. At the heart of the system lies a Teensy 4.0 chosen due to its incredibly high clockspeed of 600MHz and above (a normal Arduino Uno only has 16MHz!). It controls the motor via two SilentStepStick TMC2209 stepper motor drivers, reads the endstops for the mirrors and controls the laser diode (7mW 650nm ADL65075TA4) using a transistor. For controlling the current of the laser diode, a cheap universal laser driver is chosen. The whole package is fed 12V input voltage with a LM317 supplying 5V for the Teensy Board. The power of the laser diode can be adjusted by turning a potentiometer.

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The NA depends on the construction of the objective and generally increases with increasing objective magnification. Standard air (n = 1) objectives are limited to an NA of <1, with higher NAs up to ~1.4 achievable with the use of immersion oil objectives due to the higher refractive index. The higher the NA the larger the acceptance angle of the objective and the smaller the spot size that can be achieved, which is illustrated in Figure 3 with three commonly used air objectives.